Senior Software Engineer

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet - from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.
Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world's brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.
The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges - from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you're driven to solve meaningful challenges, we'd love to meet you.

Job Title:

Senior Software Engineer

Location:

10770 NE 8th St., Suite 700, Bellevue, WA 98004

* Telecommuting permitted: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from The Trade Desk, Inc. office in Bellevue, WA.

Architect, design, develop, and optimize deployment automation tools and frameworks to enable fast, reliable, and scalable delivery of microservices on Kubernetes. Develop and maintain sophisticated internal tools including CLIs, dashboards, and automation bots that streamline deployment workflows and enhance developer productivity. Lead collaboration with engineering teams to design user-friendly, scalable deployment strategies and simplify complex Kubernetes deployment processes. Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and health‑check systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and related technologies to ensure deployment system reliability and performance.

Drive improvements in onboarding and deployment processes, ensuring consistency, security, and ease of use across teams. Produce high‑quality technical documentation and lead knowledge‑sharing sessions and training workshops to elevate team proficiency in deployment tools and best practices. Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, Security, and Kubernetes platform teams to continuously evolve deployment tooling and enhance overall developer experience. Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies and frameworks to innovate deployment automation and developer tooling capabilities.

Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior engineers, offering guidance on architecture, code quality, and performance; conduct regular feedback and career development reviews.

$212,202 - $274,700 / year

Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or related field and six (6) years of experience in the job offered or related role. Must have five (5) years of experience with: design patterns and software architecture design patterns; and one or more of: C#, Java, C, C++, SQL. Must have three (3) years of experience with Cloud Computing/Virtualisation environments including Docker.

Must have two (2) years of experience with:
Kubernetes; and CI/CD. Must have one (1) year of experience with ArgoCD.

The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package.  to learn more.

All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock‑based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation‑based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match, short and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well‑being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full‑time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year…